The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898Sanford Levinson, Bartholomew H. Sparrow Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 - Počet stran: 262 The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and constitutional questions. As the nation continued to expand westward and into the Pacific and Caribbean, critical social, political and constitutional questions arose that greatly tested American resolve and reshaped the nation's founding premises. In this exciting collection, Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew Sparrow bring together noted scholars in American history, constitutional law, and political science to examine role that the Louisiana Purchase played in shaping both the expansionist policies of the nineteenth century and critical interpretations of the Constitution. The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898 provides a fascinating overview of how the U.S. Constitution and the American political system is inextricably tied to the Louisiana Purchase and the territorial expansion of the United States. |
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Strana
... slavery , while southern states , beginning with Kentucky and Tennessee but later in- cluding Alabama and Mississippi , would enter the Union as slave states . Each region would thus have a veto over any untoward ambitions of the other ...
... slavery , while southern states , beginning with Kentucky and Tennessee but later in- cluding Alabama and Mississippi , would enter the Union as slave states . Each region would thus have a veto over any untoward ambitions of the other ...
Strana
... inhabi- tants of the United States up to that point ( with the exceptions of the importation of African slaves and the conquest and very partial assimilation Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction vii 1 Sanford Levinson and.
... inhabi- tants of the United States up to that point ( with the exceptions of the importation of African slaves and the conquest and very partial assimilation Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction vii 1 Sanford Levinson and.
Strana 5
... slavery , while southern states , beginning with Kentucky and Tennessee but later in- cluding Alabama and Mississippi , would enter the Union as slave states . Each region would thus have a veto over any untoward ambitions of the other ...
... slavery , while southern states , beginning with Kentucky and Tennessee but later in- cluding Alabama and Mississippi , would enter the Union as slave states . Each region would thus have a veto over any untoward ambitions of the other ...
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... all other inhabi- tants of the United States up to that point ( with the exceptions of the importation of African slaves and the conquest and very partial assimilation House of Representatives ( as well as to elect presidents.
... all other inhabi- tants of the United States up to that point ( with the exceptions of the importation of African slaves and the conquest and very partial assimilation House of Representatives ( as well as to elect presidents.
Strana 7
... slave owners over slaves in the territories and free states ; and the Compromise of 1850 ( which admitted California as a free state , established Texas's current smaller boundaries , and kept New Mexico as a territory ) was adopted ...
... slave owners over slaves in the territories and free states ; and the Compromise of 1850 ( which admitted California as a free state , established Texas's current smaller boundaries , and kept New Mexico as a territory ) was adopted ...
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Strana 9 - ... throughout the United States. Does this term designate the whole, or any particular portion, of the American empire ? Certainly this question can admit of but one answer. It is the name given to our great republic, which is composed of states and territories. The district of Columbia, or the territory west of the Missouri, is not less within the United States than Maryland or Pennsylvania...